Between the covers of teen mags

This month's issue of Cosmo Girl!, whose readers are supposedly "fun, fearless, teens", includes a sealed guide to sex. "All your sex questions answered - what they don't teach you in sex education," it boasts while going on to describe oral sex in detail.

All manner of slang words for sex are explained while a 14-year-old who has written in to say she thinks she might be a lesbian is told that "it is quite common for girls to be attracted to one another during puberty".

It also tells teenagers to "test your mates on their sex IQ", but ridicules those who score low in the quiz by telling them to get "more sex savvy".

Those who it deems are "clued up" (by answering most of the test correctly) are those most ready for sex and the magazine goes on to advise its young readers: "You've got all the facts at your fingertips when you decide you are ready."

Yet another article graphically invites its teenage audience to "meet the girls who sold their sexual freedom" in an article titled: "I'm being paid £1,000 to stay a virgin."

Meanwhile J-17, another magazine aimed at young teenagers, has a promise to teach girls how to make boys go crazy about them, emblazoned on its cover.

An article even includes a handy list of instructions and provides readers with chat-up lines. Inside is a fictional story about a girl who "sucks face" [kisses] and likes to get drunk.

The article does not condemn the girl's actions, allowing teens to see her behaviour as "cool".